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Release Jiten Marandi Immediately and Unconditionally!

COMMITTEE FOR THE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS
185/3, FOURTH FLOOR, ZAKIR NAGAR, NEW DELHI-110025

To
Mr. Arjun Munda,
Chief Minister,
Jharkhand

No to put Jiten Marandi under the draconian preventive detention
Jharkhand Crime Control Act 2002!
Release Jiten Marandi immediately and unconditionally!
We strongly protest and are concerned about the continuing incarceration of people’s cultural artist Jiten Marandi. Jiten Marandi is also one of the secretaries of the CRPP. Notwithstanding the fact that Jiten Marandi has been acquitted on December 15, 2011 by the High Court of Jharkhand against the death sentence given to him by the sessions court in the notorious Chilkari case. Despite such heavy odds against him, Jiten Marandi could successfully tide over all machinations of the state to silence his voice. The overwhelming support of the masses of the people also proved beyond doubt that the people of the subcontinent value the struggle for justice. Further he has got bail on all the four cases slapped on him. It should be noted that two of the cases were foisted on him when he was behind bars! But he was about to be released with order of the bail when the authoritarian state of Jharkhand which has scant respect for law has yet again come up with another draconian instrument to stifle the voice of Jiten Marandi.
But we are concerned about the desperate manner in which the vindictive and authoritarian state have thrown all sense of justice and fair play to the winds and evoked the draconian Jharkhand Crime Control Act (2002) on Jiten Marandi. This last minute desperation of the Jharkhand government to evoke a draconian preventive detention act like the Jharkhand Crime Control Act (2002) to prevent the release of Jiten Marandi shows the complete lack of respect on the side of the government for the principles of right to fair trial, right to legal remedies for any citizen who necessarily has been a dissenting voice against the anti-people policies under the rubric of Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation.
One of the worst kinds of Preventive Detention instruments like the Public Safety Act of Jammu& Kashmir, the Jharkhand Crime Control Act (2002) if sanctioned on a person can put him/her behind bars for two years. This act calls for the production of the grounds on which the sanction of the same is sought on a person. The act is normally pressed into service when the SP of police moves the District Magistrate seeking the sanction to evoke the provision. The SP of police will have to show why this is the only recourse available before the government let alone convince the authority how the accused has become a real threat to the normal conduct of public life. This has to be sanctioned in 12 days. It is the state government which approves the sanction through a two member committee including the home secretary and a judge of the rank of the High Court.
Prima facie the case on Jitan Marandi under the Jharkhand Crime Control Act (2002) is nothing but a politically motivated one to ensure that he remained incarcerated behind the bars. The very timing of the invocation of this draconian law when he has been acquitted and then got bail in all trumped up cases against him is in itself evidence to show the illegal act of the state conspiring to deny the fundamental rights of a citizen to have his/her opinion as well as the right to free trial. In fact it is cruel joke on the criminal jurisprudence of this country and a bloat on judiciary itself. It also proves beyond doubt how the powers that be arbitrarily invoke every draconian instrument of law in the book to silence the genuine voices of the people for rights to life and livelihood.
We demand that
1. The move to invoke the draconian Jharkhand Crime Control Act (2002) to continue the incarceration of Jiten Marandi be immediately revoked!
2. Release Jiten Marandi immediately and unconditionally!
Copy to:
1. The Home Secretary, Jharkhand
2. The Home Minister, Jharkhand
3. The Chief Justice, High Court, Jharkhand

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The Chief Minister, Jharkhand, India

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COMMITTEE FOR THE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS185/3, FOURTH FLOOR, ZAKIR NAGAR, NEW DELHI-110025

ToMr. Arjun Munda,Chief Minister,Jharkhand

No to put Jiten Marandi under the draconian preventive detention Jharkhand Crime Control Act 2002!Release Jiten Marandi immediately and unconditionally!We strongly protest and are concerned about the continuing incarceration of people’s cultural artist Jiten Marandi. Jiten Marandi is also one of the secretaries of the CRPP. Notwithstanding the fact that Jiten Marandi has been acquitted on December 15, 2011 by the High Court of Jharkhand against the death sentence given to him by the sessions court in the notorious Chilkari case. Despite such heavy odds against him, Jiten Marandi could successfully tide over all machinations of the state to silence his voice. The overwhelming support of the masses of the people also proved beyond doubt that the people of the subcontinent value the struggle for justice. Further he has got bail on all the four cases slapped on him. It should be noted that two of the cases were foisted on him when he was behind bars! But he was about to be released with order of the bail when the authoritarian state of Jharkhand which has scant respect for law has yet again come up with another draconian instrument to stifle the voice of Jiten Marandi. But we are concerned about the desperate manner in which the vindictive and authoritarian state have thrown all sense of justice and fair play to the winds and evoked the draconian Jharkhand Crime Control Act (2002) on Jiten Marandi. This last minute desperation of the Jharkhand government to evoke a draconian preventive detention act like the Jharkhand Crime Control Act (2002) to prevent the release of Jiten Marandi shows the complete lack of respect on the side of the government for the principles of right to fair trial, right to legal remedies for any citizen who necessarily has been a dissenting voice against the anti-people policies under the rubric of Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation.One of the worst kinds of Preventive Detention instruments like the Public Safety Act of Jammu& Kashmir, the Jharkhand Crime Control Act (2002) if sanctioned on a person can put him/her behind bars for two years. This act calls for the production of the grounds on which the sanction of the same is sought on a person. The act is normally pressed into service when the SP of police moves the District Magistrate seeking the sanction to evoke the provision. The SP of police will have to show why this is the only recourse available before the government let alone convince the authority how the accused has become a real threat to the normal conduct of public life. This has to be sanctioned in 12 days. It is the state government which approves the sanction through a two member committee including the home secretary and a judge of the rank of the High Court. Prima facie the case on Jitan Marandi under the Jharkhand Crime Control Act (2002) is nothing but a politically motivated one to ensure that he remained incarcerated behind the bars. The very timing of the invocation of this draconian law when he has been acquitted and then got bail in all trumped up cases against him is in itself evidence to show the illegal act of the state conspiring to deny the fundamental rights of a citizen to have his/her opinion as well as the right to free trial. In fact it is cruel joke on the criminal jurisprudence of this country and a bloat on judiciary itself. It also proves beyond doubt how the powers that be arbitrarily invoke every draconian instrument of law in the book to silence the genuine voices of the people for rights to life and livelihood. We demand that1. The move to invoke the draconian Jharkhand Crime Control Act (2002) to continue the incarceration of Jiten Marandi be immediately revoked!2. Release Jiten Marandi immediately and unconditionally! Copy to:1. The Home Secretary, Jharkhand2. The Home Minister, Jharkhand3. The Chief Justice, High Court, Jharkhand